Bob Thompson

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1937, Robert Louis Thompson's early life was marked by both academic promise and personal loss. After his father's death when Thompson was 13, he moved back to Louisville to live with his sister, who introduced him to art and jazz. Though initially a pre-med student at Boston University, he soon shifted his focus to painting at the University of Louisville, where he studied with influential instructors like Ulfert Wilke and Dario Covi, who in…